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Suge Knight has Britney Spears' back ...

... and Kevin Federline better watch his!

TMZ spotted the hip hop mogul chewing out a K-Fed lookalike outside of the hot L.A. club, Area, last night, mistaking some chump for the real deal, then screaming, "He's a bitch!" and threatening to run the guy out of L.A.

"Britney's my homegirl!" Suge Knight declared, adding that he loves the pop princess because "she's a [sic] underdog."

Classic.

Wonder what Snoop Dogg would think about these remarks from his one-time cohort. Anyway, as he pulled away from the scene, Suge (real name Marion) told TMZ:

"That fool want to act f*%ked up with Britney, act weird about her kids, we'll chase his ass up out this city!"

Be warned, K-Fed, or you might wake up one morning to find yourself like Vanilla Ice, dangled my your ankles over a hotel balcony.

Police officers moved quickly to take down a man who allegedly threatened to kill pop star Hilary Duff during her appearance on a Canadian TV show.

Hilary Duff was being interviewed Tuesday by MuchMusic host Leah Miller on Live @ Much when a man in the crowd outside started shouting at the 19-year-old singer and actress.

The unidentified man vowed to kill Duff, prompting several police officers to tackle him. "The cops slammed his face into the pavement," said a witness. "He was bleeding."

The commotion happened just feet away from an outdoor platform where Duff later stood to greet fans who surged forward for autographs and pictures.

It's not the first time the lovely young gal has been involved in a scary indicent. Last November, police in Manhattan Beach, Calif., arrested an 18-year-old, Maksim Miakovsky, for stalking and threatening to kill Duff.

A month earlier, Duff and her then-boyfriend Joel Madden of rock band Good Charlotte filed for restraining orders against Miakovsky and his 50-year-old roommate, David Joseph Klein.

Miakovsky pleaded no contest to the charges in January and was sentenced to 117 days in jail and five years probation.

Duff was in Toronto promoting her third studio CD, Dignity. It's too bad her fans don't have any of it! Seriously. Why the hell are there so many people stalking or wishing harm on Hilary Duff? Hopefully older sister Haylie Duff was there to comfort her.

At the very least, she has a legion of fans who wish her the best every single day. And she's got Lindsay Lohan (and possibly Stavros Niarchos) in her camp.

What's happening to our favorite daytime hosts?

We just announced that Vanessa Minnillo is leaving Total Request Live.

And - breaking news from The Hollywood Gossip! - Rosie O'Donnell has just announced that she's exiting The View because she couldn't come to terms with ABC on a new contract. We're sure Rosie's recent anti-America comments didn't play a factor at all.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is gonna need to find a new lesbian foe to do battle with now.

Of course, the debate will now rage on about who ought to replace O'Donnell. Fortunately, we don't think Star Jones returning is a possibility.

But we do have one suggestion for Barbara Walters to consider: Katie Holmes. The poor, deluded housewife needs an escape. The View could be it.

The Hollywood Gossip, along with numerous other celebrity gossip sites, talked earlier this week about Kevin Federline's most recent partying excursion in Las Vegas.

Well, much as we would like to believe that FedEx is a man gone wild - and he might be - a reader makes an interesting point about how we can misinterpret pictures.

Agatha writes to The Hollywood Gossip via email:

"Sorry to disappoint all you gossipers out there, but there's really nothing to see here. I'm the lady on the far left in this photo and I can assure you that there was nothing more going on at K-Fed's cabana than any other one at the pool that day.

None of us knew him, and he never hit on any of us. We were invited by the cocktail waitress to join his party for a drink, as we were out promoting for another club in Vegas. He, along with everyone else in his crew, was polite and respectful, and he even talked about his kids.

We had our drinks and were then on our way, but not before the lady in the middle of this photo asked for a pic with K-Fed. He was polite and obliged, so we all said cheese, thinking it was for her own personal souvenier [sic].

I find it innappropriate and distasteful that this girl decided to exploit this situation and sell the photo to rag mags who make up lies for profit.

It's really unfortunate that those of us out doing our jobs and promoting get slammed in the crossfire. I don't have any opinion about [Kevin Federline] one way or the other, nor do I really know anything about him, other than that he was polite to us, and on vacation for the weekend... wow, what a sin!"

Well said, Agatha. Although we feel we did not portray Kevin Federline and his crew unfairly in our original post, we apologize if the story of his Vegas sojourn was distorted in any way.

Thanks for writing in. We encourage more readers to do the same if they've got the real scoop involving celebs. In the meantime, we'll focus on some real news - like The Apprentice star Kristine Lefebvre promoting cervical cancer awareness and Miss USA Lauren Nelson leading the fight against sexual predators.

Putting aside the lovely images of MTV host Vanessa Minnillo nude, let's focus on her professional plans for a moment:

The girlfriend of Nick Lachey is leaving Total Request Live. It's just time to graduate, Vanessa told People magazine.

"I had my four years there like high school or college," Minnillo said Tuesday at a benefit for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. "I'm ready for the next chapter â€" what it is, I have no idea. [But] I don't want to be 48 saying, 'Hey kids, now it's Sean Preston Spears's video.' "

For the record, Vanessa, it's Sean Preston Federline. Come on now.

The veejay, who recently moved in Nick Lachey, said there are some things she'll miss about her job, such as "that daily live factor of anything can happen." But maybe she'll move on to a somewhat successful talk show, like her predecessor Carson Daly.

Minnillo's first non-MTV gig will be unveiling her limited-edition makeup line for Flirt! Cosmetics, available in August. "We have two looks going on," she said. "You can have that fun rock-and-roll look or an everyday look."

She also has a cameo alongside Jessica Alba in the movie Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, in theaters this summer.

Jessica Simpson thinks Britney Spears is soooooo over. So 2002. Heck, she doesn't even consider Britney a competitor of hers anymore.

How do we know? She's even offering to help hook her up with her pimp (and father), Crazy Joe Simpson Inc., to help resurrect her career.

Jessica apparently offered to call Britney Spears to set something up for dad, who's been mulling taking over Brit's career ever since she axed manager Larry Rudolph.

Joe Simpson (below, left) tried setting up a meeting over the weekend, says a New York Post source, though a rep for Jessica Simpson denies that.

And Joe Simpson appears to be swooping in just as Britney's actual father - Jamie Spears (below, right, with Brit's mom, Lynne) - has been publicly trashing her for canning Rudolph, as well as blaming her for blaming him and her mother for her rehab-instigating troubles. 

Or something. Jamie blasted her in an April 20 article in the New York Post, calling his daughter "out of control," the results were disastrous. The move pushed Spears (already angry about being forced into rehab) to the edge.

As a consequence, the walking train wreck "has cut everyone out of her life," a source says. "She says she doesn't want to see anyone from her past."

Meanwhile, Britney Spears' relationship with her mother Lynne - with whom she co-wrote two feel-good books, including 2000's Heart to Heart - has been strained from the moment she began dating Kevin Federline in 2004.

But it further deteriorated when Federline, 29, was given custody of their kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James, while Spears, 25, was in rehab - a good call, but one Britney Spears got pissed about and says was orchestrated by her mom.

"She feels her mother gave Larry Rudolph power: He handed her kids over to her ex," explains the source. "Britney loves her mom and they talk almost every day, but they aren't the most cordial conversations."

Look, some Miss America winners can only find comfort in the bottom of a bottle. But that's nothing to be ashamed of, Tara Conner.

And others pose nude in Playboy, conduct fights via MySpace and get back together with their tattoo-laden ex-husbands. But that's ok, Shanna Moakler.

Still others that represent our nation take to the streets and help to arrest online pedophiles Way to go, Lauren Nelson.

The most recent winner of the Miss America crown helped the FBI nab such sickos by posing as a 14-year-old on the Net, chatting online with men and then actually meeting them at a house in Long Island, whereupon they were arrested on camera for America's Most Wanted.

"I got to chat online with the predators and made phone calls, too," Nelson said by phone from Atlantic City, N.J. "The Suffolk County Police Department was there the whole time."

No matter Stephen Colbert salutes this beauty.

In other beauty pageant nude, a nude Katie Rees is probably kissing some girls in Las Vegas right about now.

Katie Holmes has hardly left Tom Cruise's side since they began dating in April 2005.

However, that support has caused her much grief.

According to one Hollywood insider, the actress, who gave birth to daughter Suri Cruise last year, has been told by her kooky husband to attend "mommy classes" taught by Scientology "handlers."

"There are parenting classes," a Scientology source confirms.

"Katie Holmes was quite offended by that," the source tells Us Weekly.

"Can you imagine when you're 28 and have your first child to be told you need to go to this church to become a better mom?"

Holmes now finds herself surrounded by fellow Scientologists, an exception being Victoria Beckham, who one Hollywood insider describes as "her link to the outside world."

Wow. We've talked before about Holmes' battle and how she is a prisoner without bars. But when Victoria Beckham is your link to the outside world ... that's pretty f*%ked up.

From the time TomKat began dating, the actress - who, pre-Tom Cruise, did interviews without a publicist - has been assigned a Scientology "minder," whose job, according to a Scientology expert, is "to make sure that nothing is said or done that would be critical of the church."

In fact, virtually everyone on the couple's staff is a member of the Church of Scientology.

"Everyone who works with Tom is technically minding Katie," a source dished.

So why does Katie stay? What will Suri Cruise's life be like growing up as a Scientologist? What did Tom's ex, Nicole Kidman, think about all this?

Only time will tell, celebrity gossip followers. Only time will tell.

Are you sick of reading about David Beckham nude yet?

Even if you're not (the guy does have a killer bod, after all), it's hard not to have interest piqued by the though of Kristine Lefebvre naked.

The fired contestant from this season's Apprentice will be making like Holly Madison and posing in the June issue of Playboy. But that doesn't mean she's giving up her day job.

"I'm still and will continue to be a practicing attorney," she said to TV Guide. "I hope to use Apprentice and Playboy to put a face on cervical cancer. Now that there is a vaccine for it, it just seems that people should be aware of its ramifications."

She'll obviously be putting more than just a face on the disease.

Lefebvre, 37, a Los Angeles lawyer who has negotiated Playboy deals for Pamela Anderson and Deborah Gibson, is a cervical cancer survivor. Moreover, she credits The Apprentice for helping her dig out of a post-illness depression. "I'm in a state of elation now," Lefebvre says, "The Apprentice truly gave me my life back and I couldn't be happier."

It was only a year ago when Lefebvre was devastated by the hysterectomy she needed to treat her cancer â€" which took away her chance for a much-wanted biological child. Then, six weeks before she joined the show, an adoption she and husband Ludovic Lefebvre had hoped for fell through.

Looking back on the earliest Apprentice episodes, even Kristine was surprised to see how "sunken" she appeared.

Now, she and her husband have been approved for an adoption in China and she's hoping to use the Playboy money to finance a surrogate for the 10 frozen embryos she harvested before her surgery. It's a cause we can certainly admire, more so than whatever reason a nude Sean Stewart had for getting naked on a beach.

Finally, despite being fired by Donald Trump, she and the billionaire "have a great relationship [of] mutual respect." And Trump agrees: "I think Playboy has very good taste."

Cameron Diaz may want to enter the world of online shopping.

While enjoying what started as a peaceful day of shopping in New York City, Diaz stopped by Lounge, SoHo's huge ass shopping emporium, to amp up her summer wardrobe.

Fresh off a breakup with Justin Timberlake and a possible fling with Kelly Slater, the 34-year-old actress was happily browsing the racks for dresses, shoes, and jewelry when she was startled by a mass of paparazzi.

The photographers had entered Lounge's back entrance on Mercer Street and instantly swarmed her, flashing their bulbs like madmen.

"Cameron totally freaked out, screamed, and dropped the items she was going to purchase," a witness tells Us Weekly.

The star of There's Something About Mary, wearing little to no makeup, decided to hightail it through Lounge's Casablanca Tea Room and Bar and slipped out the back door.

Let's just say that as she bolted, the actress looked a little less hot than she does in these sexy Cameron Diaz photos.

Adds the witness:

"She couldn't even get 5 minutes of shopping in before she was running, full speed to get away as fast as she could."

She's got some wheels. This girl runs away from paparazzi faster than Nicole Richie bolts at the nearest sight of food. Tragic, that.